How you can benefit from using Redis

All the cool cats are using Redis and with reason: It's fast, it's robust, it's easy, and it's web scale. Redis is powering sites like twitter, instagram or pinterest, but you can also benefit from the power of redis even in a more modest project.

In this session I will talk about what is redis, what you can do with it, how you can use it from your application, why you should be using it already and some common patterns when dealing with it. I will talk about:

what REALLY FAST means
Redis data structures

How twitter, pinterest or instagram use redis.

queuing slow operations
using redis for cross-language development
atomic counters and generating sequences
dealing with temporary data in your application
redis as a cache
how to store relational data in a non relational data store
interesting problems when distributing your application.